Senator Brown pulls out of tomorrow night’s debate with Professor Warren! Is this is a good move?

According to WRKO, Senator Scott Brown is pulling out of tomorrow night’s media consortium debate at WGBH inferring that a disaster is not the time to put politics front and center. Is he right? Or does this seem like he’s chickening out?

Meanwhile David Bernstein gets caught off guard thinking that Scott Brown’s preemptive move was self-serving. Now that his newspaper’s candidate (Warren) has pulled out for the same reasons — concern for public safety, Bernstein has to sort of dial back. The dart toward Brown doesn’t look so good now.

“So, now I think they’re both being ridiculous and hypocritical. The debate doesn’t affect public safety and cleanup any more or less than the ads both sides are airing; if those stay up, the debate should go on.”

The pox on both houses is a little lame, I’d say. Voters view ad-buys a bit differently than they do watching whether politicians take advantage of the news cycle during the crisis.